Opera

Built using the open web standards you know and love, Opera Dragonfly’s source is available to view. Not only that, but it is released on a open source BSD license, meaning it is free as in freedom as well as in beer. Opera is normally one of the few browsers that isn’t open source, but Read the rest…

Opera has been leading us on to a bit product launch, and it came today in the form of Opera Unite a product which extends the Opera browser to contain a Web server inside allowing you to talk P2P between browsers (via a proxy at operaunite.com). On the one hand, skeptics have argued that this Read the rest…

Opera isn’t sitting on their heels as the other browser vendors get snappy (even if other claim so!) Today they announced Carakan a new register based JavaScript VM that is currently 2.5 times faster than their existing one (based on SunSpider). It does native code generation including at specializing for Regex (interestingly since irregex for Read the rest…

Here is a fun one for Friday, Hallvord Steen discusses the error reports coming in for Opera 10 that are to do with the version number. That’s right, it appears that a number of people use the first character as the version number, which means that Opera 10 is showing up as Opera 1: So Read the rest…

Ars discussed the new Opera initiative MAMA, the study that only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant whatever that means :) It is cool to see Opera doing this kind of work, with “Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA), a tool that crawls the web and indexes the markup and scripting data from approximately 3.5 Read the rest…

Opera is being very pro-active and have been hiring folk to give compliance feedback for sites that aren’t working well on Opera. Nik Cubrilovic covered this on the new TechCrunch IT blog: Opera Software is building a team of â€œweb evangelistsâ€ whose job it is to find sites that do not display correctly in Opera Read the rest…

Shea Frederick has posted on building Wii-friendly web pages using the ExtJS library. Shea focuses on the various issues that come up when building something for the Wii resolution, screen size, input types, and more. For example, check out the layout: javascript < view plain text > Ext.ns(‘Ext.ux.layout’); Ext.ux.layout.wii = Ext.extend(Ext.layout.FitLayout, { setItemSize Read the rest…

Opera has posted what looks like a great new Web debugging tool Opera Dragonfly which is released in alpha. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors â€“ Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone. Shawn Lauriat has a nice write-up that tells Read the rest…

We have a couple of browser updates. First, we have Firefox 3 beta 5 which has improved integration with the host system, a better places organizer, and a bump: Speed improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Read the rest…

It appears that Opera has passed Acid 3: Since the test was officially announced recently, our Core developers have been hard at work fixing bugs and adding the missing standards support. Today we reached a 100% pass rate for the first time! There are some remaining issues yet to be fixed, but we hope to Read the rest…

Ah, the courts. The latest case aimed at Microsoft is from Opera, as they urge Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standardsâ€”compliant Web browsers: The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Read the rest…

Tim Johansson is talking about Opera’s support for a 3d Canvas which differs from Mozilla’s in that it doesn’t map directly to OpenGL, which they did because: It makes it easier to implement on non-OpenGL platforms (such as D3D) We wanted to have some form of collision detection available What can you do? Here is Read the rest…

We just talked about how JavaScript and Ajax works in Opera Mini and today Opera released the full version. Features Opera Link We’ve added support for Opera Link in Opera Mini 4. With Opera Link, you’re able to instantly synchronize and share your bookmarks and Speed Dial with the Opera browser for your computer. Overview Read the rest…

Chris Mills, Opera’s Developer Relationship Manager, goes into great detail about Opera Mini 4′s support for JavaScript and Ajax. Opera Mini is a very clever way of bringing the web to your mobile phone – it will work on most phone models, even low spec ones, as long as they will run a JVM. Basically, Read the rest…